As I Lay Dying

In Faulkners As I range Dying, he used animals to symbolize founts. The Bundren children are obsessed with animals throughout the novel. Vardaman is convinced(p) that his sire is a look for, Darl declares that Jewels mother is a horse, and Dewey dell relates to the farm terrify as another woman. After each character learns of their mothers death they each relate an animal to situations ostensible to their hold lives. Varadaman sees Addie as a fish because of the way that she has been transformed from animate to dead. Vardaman catches a fish on the day his mother dies and cuts it up and brings it inwardly to be cooked.The blood of the fish is all over his clothes and on the same day Addie dies. Vardaman connects a fish with his mother and believes her to be a fish. Vardaman comes back and picks up the fish. It slides out of his hands, smearing wet dirt onto him, and flops down, dirtying itself again, gapmouthed, goggle-eyed, concealment into the dust like it was ashamed of be dead, like it was in a hurry to get back hid again, (Faulkner, 31). In this section Vardaman relates his mom to being a fish. Vardaman uses the death of the fish to symbolize the death of his mother. Vardaman comes around the house, spread over as a hog to his knees, and that ere fish chopped up with the ax like it or not, (Faulkner, 38). Vardaman later grasps the concept of death and how it relates back to his own being. Although he seems to be young ,Vardaman begins to attribute his now dead mother to a now dead fish. I can feel where the fish was in the dust. It is cut up into pieces of not-fish now, not-blood on my hands and overalls, (Faulkner, 53. ) The fish symbol is illustrated throughout the novel as being Vardamans mother. My mother is a fish, (Faulkner, 84).Next, Faulkner uses the Bundren cow to symbolize Addies death, the bond between Dewel dingle and Vardaman. Dewey dell is the character that relates most with the family cow. The cow just like Dewey Dell has som ething internal of them. The cow lows at the foot of the bluff. She nuzzles at me, snuffing, blowing her breath in a sweet, hot blast, through my dress, against my nakedness, moaning. You got to wait a little while. Then Ill tend to you, (Faulkner, 61). The milk inside the cows body is related to the ball up growing inside of Dewey Dell.The milk is symbolic of the thing inside her body. The cow nuzzles at me moaning. Youll just have to wait. What you got in you aint nothing to what I got in me, even if you are a woman too, (Faulkner, 63). Even though Dewey Dell is pregnant now she finds that she has to be the maternal figure in the house. You go on to the house and get your supper. He draws back. I hold him. You cease now. You leave me be, (Faulkner, 62). Jewel is unable to express emotion towards his mother, however he has no problem portraying it towards his horse, even though his ways whitethorn seem violent. Jewel with dug heels, shutting off the horses wind with one hand, w ith the other patting the horses neck in short strokes myriad and caressing, cursing the horse with obscene ferocity, (Faulkner, 12). Based on Darls word, the horse is a symbol of Jewels love for his mother. For Jewel, however, the horse, based on his horseback riding of it, apparently symbolizes a hard-won freedom from the Bundren family. Jewel is extremely possessive and aroused about his horse. He had spent his nights cleaning up a playing area in order to buy it with his own money. Anse takes the horse and trades it for a aggroup of mules to bring the caravan to Jefferson.